Psychosis Bipolar

Bipolar psychosis is a disease characterized by periodic changes in affect: sharp nervousness (psychomotor agitation) occurs episodically, is replaced by an attack of irritability, then excessive inhibition with anxious anxiety and uncertainty appears.

Symptoms of bipolar disorder may include: periods of euphoria and intense excitement, which abruptly turns into deep sadness and depression. In this state, patients are prone to violence, even attempting suicide. If such symptoms occur, it is necessary to undergo an examination by a psychiatrist.

Bipolar psychoses are disorders in which, in the clinical picture, mental and emotional disorders observed in the structure of one or another clinical phase of psychosis often replace each other over a short period of time: the course of the phases takes on the character of whimsically arising, disturbed emotional and mental states compared to the norm . The development of psychosis is caused by disruption of certain neurotransmitter systems of the brain. It has been noted that the risk of developing the disease increases during periods of hormonal changes in the body, such as puberty, pregnancy, menopause, as well as after a traumatic brain injury or chronic infection. Often the cause of psychosis is concomitant brain pathology (for example, tumors or vascular abnormalities) and somatic diseases. In some cases, dysfunction is inherited. Manifestations of psychosis most often develop at a typical age - between 30 and 40 years, and are in the nature of continuously recurrent and reciprocal modified affective states characteristic of schizophrenia. Anamnestic pathological process usually lasts several years. Characterized by polarity, paroxysmality and phasicity. Periods characterized by neurotic, non-psychotic affective disorders without delusions and hallucinations alternate with attacks of various symptoms (from psychotic to subpsychotic manifestations): depression, paranoid states, mania with acute sensory delusions of persecution, verbal and visual hallucinosis, psychomotor agitation, less often with acute oneiric conditions; remission is typical. According to ICD 11, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder is assumed when two or more phases of manic or depressive disorder exist within 1 month.